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A person sits on a bench in a yoga studio holding their rolled up mat upright. There's a large potted plant nearby in the bright airy space.

Developing A New Practice: One Year Later

Posted on January 11, 2016 by Jo VanEvery Leave a Comment

I’ve been preaching the value of establishing a regular writing practice. If you are writing regularly, you will produce journal articles, books, and whatever else you need to produce. Establishing a regular practice is hard, but research shows that as little as 15 minutes per day can be effective. You can find 15 minutes. I’ve […]

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The benefits of working small

Posted on August 3, 2015 by Jo VanEvery Leave a Comment

In another post, I asked: “How could you experiment with working in a relaxed state?” — Is working at or just beyond your limits really effective? I proposed that the ways in which my yoga teacher has been encouraging us to work within the comfortable range of movement and not stretch our muscles to their limits, […]

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Is working at or just beyond your limits really effective?

Posted on July 9, 2015 by Jo VanEvery Leave a Comment

We live in a culture in which we are often demanded to do more. How much writing can you do in a year/semester/week/hour? How many students can you teach effectively? This constant striving for more leaves many of us feeling inadequate a lot of the time. It also privileges an approach to work that is […]

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A person viewed from above sits in cross legs on the wooden floor of a yoga studio with their palms gently placed on their knees, facing up. A yoga block and a potted plant sit nearby.

Developing A New Practice: An Update

Posted on March 9, 2015 by Jo VanEvery 2 Comments

In my Planning Classes, I talk about how you learn to juggle by tossing one beanbag from one hand to the other. Your goal is form and consistency. Once you have that, you can add more beanbags, change from beanbags to something else, and do something that looks much more like juggling. You can’t juggle […]

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Using the supports you need

Posted on January 22, 2015 by Jo VanEvery 1 Comment

Jo VanEvery, Academic Career Guide · Using the supports you need One of the things my yoga teachers are constantly reminding us about is that using supports is not a sign of weakness. Sometimes, in order to get the benefit of a pose, you need to use a block or a strap or modify the […]

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A yoga teacher helps a person in a yoga class with a pose, in a sheltered beach-side location.

Developing A New Practice: How I Do It

Posted on January 8, 2015 by Jo VanEvery Leave a Comment

You are probably worried about being able to write high quality academic prose, to get it published, to write and publish enough of it, and so on. You may look at my advice to write for 15 minutes a day and think that is never going to help you with that. What useful writing can […]

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Developing A New Practice: Getting Started

Posted on January 6, 2015 by Jo VanEvery Leave a Comment

Do you want to be an academic who writes regularly? In December, 2014, I decided that I wanted to be someone who practices yoga regularly. I’ve done enough yoga to know that it is good for me to do it regularly. I have a teacher locally that I really like. But I had fallen out […]

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Boundaries, balance and the whole you

Posted on December 12, 2013 by Jo VanEvery Leave a Comment

Jo VanEvery, Academic Career Guide · Boundaries, Balance, and the Whole You The term “work-life balance” is out of favour. I’m not sure why. Perhaps because everyone is working so hard it seems like an impossible dream. I came across a recent piece in Harvard Business Review arguing for the importance of boundaries. They are not […]

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You always have time for yoga, mama

Posted on March 28, 2013 by Jo VanEvery Leave a Comment

When you’re busy, it’s easy to forget to look after yourself. You feel like you don’t have time to go to the gym, to go for a run, for yoga, for meditation, for sleep, to eat properly … If you’re lucky, your kids or someone else who loves you will remind you that you always have time. […]

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People vary

Posted on September 3, 2012 by Jo VanEvery Leave a Comment

This post is part of an occasional series about how yoga influences how I work with clients. I don’t expect you to do yoga. Ever. In your whole life. The point of this series is that yoga has taught me some interesting things about how to approach other things. Differences are not necessarily things we […]

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If it hurts …

Posted on July 19, 2012 by Jo VanEvery Leave a Comment

This post is part of an occasional series about how yoga influences how I work with clients. I don’t expect you to do yoga. You don’t even have to attempt the pose I’m going to talk about. Ever. In your whole life. The point of this series is that yoga has taught me some interesting […]

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The goal & what you can do

Posted on July 5, 2012 by Jo VanEvery 2 Comments

This post is part of an occasional series about how yoga influences how I work with clients. I don’t expect you to do yoga. You don’t even have to attempt the pose I’m going to talk about. Ever. In your whole life. The point of this series is that yoga has taught me some interesting […]

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